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Post #145,446
by Nightowl
3/10/04 6:28:21 PM
3/10/04 6:31:06 PM
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New Re: You can't
Similar to what I was thinking of posting.

Only he can help himself now and he seems to be choosing not to, so until he changes his mind about it and accepts help or asks for some, best to let him deal with it how he's chosen.

In another lifetime I might have taken a more active role in trying to help him at the very beginning, but I pretty much stopped inviting homeless friends in to live with me after my experience with Michael.... someone who made me wake up to the fact that you can't help someone unless they CHOOSE the help, even if you provide all their room and board, and etc. If they choose to remain problematic, they will, and he did.

Nightowl >8#

Edit: Not to mention, when John and I moved here, we decided on the policy of NOT having any desolate friends live here with us for any reason, which was a smart decision.

"Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Post #145,452
by deSitter
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3/10/04 6:45:51 PM
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New Re: You can't
What utter bullshit.
-drl
     There are alternatives - (orion) - (25) - March 10, 2004, 01:35:22 PM EST
         Re: There are alternatives - (deSitter) - (24) - March 10, 2004, 01:40:41 PM EST
             Well what can I do to help then? - (orion) - (23) - March 10, 2004, 05:50:20 PM EST
                 You can't - (hnick) - (22) - March 10, 2004, 06:24:36 PM EST
                     Re: You can't - (Nightowl) - (1) - March 10, 2004, 06:31:06 PM EST
                         Re: You can't - (deSitter) - March 10, 2004, 06:45:51 PM EST
                     Re: You can't - (deSitter) - (19) - March 10, 2004, 06:45:12 PM EST
                         When I was down and out - (orion) - (1) - March 10, 2004, 06:50:03 PM EST
                             Re: When I was down and out - (deSitter) - March 10, 2004, 06:50:55 PM EST
                         I wasn't referring to jobs - (Nightowl) - (1) - March 10, 2004, 06:51:16 PM EST
                             Re: I wasn't referring to jobs - (deSitter) - March 10, 2004, 06:53:30 PM EST
                         Apparently there are different levels of prostitution - (hnick) - (14) - March 10, 2004, 07:37:23 PM EST
                             WTF? - (mmoffitt) - (10) - March 10, 2004, 10:49:00 PM EST
                                 B.A. in math - (hnick) - (9) - March 11, 2004, 06:59:52 AM EST
                                     Ah yes. That's a "teaching" degree. - (mmoffitt) - (3) - March 11, 2004, 08:46:51 AM EST
                                         That position seems like uninformed BS to me -NT - (ben_tilly) - (2) - March 11, 2004, 11:10:23 AM EST
                                             You gotta be so serious all the time? - (mmoffitt) - (1) - March 11, 2004, 11:24:59 AM EST
                                                 That's the second time that I've been accused of that today - (ben_tilly) - March 11, 2004, 11:45:39 AM EST
                                     What is any math degree good for? - (ben_tilly) - (4) - March 11, 2004, 11:09:00 AM EST
                                         As a person with a grad Math degree myself, - (mmoffitt) - March 11, 2004, 11:31:43 AM EST
                                         Sure, I suppose that's why they offer it - (hnick) - (2) - March 11, 2004, 11:43:41 AM EST
                                             Understandable - (ben_tilly) - March 11, 2004, 11:50:33 AM EST
                                             Re: Sure, I suppose that's why they offer it - (deSitter) - March 11, 2004, 11:55:11 AM EST
                             Don't you do php? - (drewk) - (2) - March 11, 2004, 10:51:21 AM EST
                                 no php so far. - (hnick) - (1) - March 11, 2004, 11:36:23 AM EST
                                     You're doomed - (deSitter) - March 11, 2004, 11:43:14 AM EST

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